Will Kürlich Kerl
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What happens if Frederick the Great dies at the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759?
What happens if Frederick the Great dies at the Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759?
The Ottoman is relegated to the Anatolian plateau by 1800.
So contemptuous are you? I'd think they'd be able to hold together a bit more a bit longer...
I think this is pretty realistic:
1. Austria made very easy gains in the 1770's/80's in the Balkans. Only Prussia threats forced their hands at giving back most of the territory.
2. Russia made very easy gains in the 1780's in the Caucusus and Ukraine.
3. Persia easily invaded Baghdad
4. Egypt rebelled in the 1760's and conquered Syria. Only internal intrigue halted this.
5. Much of the Balkans were continuing to rebel on a regular basis. Without the European powers to force a lighter hand with defacto self-government, the Ottoman would have tried a harsher regime that they could not enforce. Even without foreign help, Greece, Serbia, Romania, etc, would have achieved independence.
Germany is unlikely to be united by anyone, at least in the same form.
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The Napoleonic wars go differently, tough to say how much.
Prussia is partioned, Silesia to Austria, Magdeburg and Lusatia to Saxony, East Prussia to Russia (soon to be traded by Courland), the Rhenish and Westphalian provinces divided between Austria and Saxony, possibly some regaining Imperial Imediacy, Sweden restores Pommerania to its original size.
The situation of Hannover is tricky, the French acquired a lot of ground by 1759 and it's fortunes would only reverse in 1761 with Prussian help, so Hannover falls by 1760 (1761 if the French are REALLY incompent).
France uses Hannover as a bargain chip against Britain for limited losses in North America and India.
This is a bit of a stretch. Things are going to go very differently from now on. Who knows if the Napoleonic Wars even still happen? Even more so for the nationalist questions. These things are far in the future and events in the next decades would yet have an effect on them.
This is very similar to one of my timelines.
I had France holding their own in India (no British conquest of Bengal) and leaving a general status quo. However, they did lose Canada and deemed the lose acceptable as it was considerably less valuable than the West Indies islands (never lost) and a sinkhole for money that was surrounded by the more populous British colonies to the south and the more powerful Royal Navy (thus doomed to be lost at some point).
So France did not offer George II his patrimony back.
The dissenting voices were that France had no dynastic right to keep Hanover. I wasn't worried about this as conquest was conquest and France could hardly be expected to get nothing out of the war.
However, Louis XV offered Hanover to a younger grandson, never to be united with France. A catholic ruler of a predominantly protestant land would make people uncomfortable. The Habsburgs would loathe the idea.
Everything worked out neatly when the Duke of Bavaria dies at the same time as the French prince.
Bavaria went to Austria, Hanover to the Wittelsbachs (whom hated Bavaria anyway) and the Austrian Netherlands to France.
In this scenario, Maria Theresa would just trade the Austrian Netherlands upfront to France for Hanover and keep the Bourbons from ever having a foothold in the Holy Roman Empire in the first place. Later, when Duke Maximilian dies, the trade with the Wittelsbachs will be much simpler.